"Where Is My Friend's Home"

Nannie 2022-04-22 07:01:55

I accidentally saw a friend tag this movie before, so I immediately looked for resources to watch it, but there were no subtitles at that time, so I stopped after watching it for a while. Finished watching this one today.

The movie talks about a very simple thing, one hour and 20 minutes, there is no thrilling feeling, but the heart is still running with the little boy.

I can't write anything, so I will share a few of my thoughts and keep them for my own memory later.


·The children's acting skills are very good, the eyes are very moving, and the bright eyes are a bit pitiful. The same is true for other children. Although adults hate it, I have to say that the performance is very good, maybe;

There are only two adults in the whole article, I think it's okay, one is the mother, even if the little boy finally went against her will to find a friend, he didn't kill him after he came home. I thought she was partial and ignored the child before. See the image of a tired mother at last;

The other is the teacher, the only adult in the whole article that I feel has listened carefully to the child’s speech and respected the child;

·The little boy is too innocent. In comparison, he can't imagine how the adult has changed from the same innocent appearance;

·In the scene where the wind blows the door open, the mother has been doing housework, from the beginning to the end;

·Where is my friend's house, I don't know when the whole film is over.

· Although it is a very simple story, I like this kind of movie very much. Just a movie about one thing.


20180817 APR

Because of the subtitles, I didn't read it well in many places, and after reading a lot of comments, I felt a lot more emotional.

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Extended Reading
  • Adah 2022-03-28 09:01:13

    @小西天. All the hallmarks of his films can be found in Abbas's style-forming work: the boy's lonely journey, the bitter and absurd repetition of life (adults repeat their own words over and over, ignoring children's requests; boys obsessively repeat their own Demands, ran over the Z-shaped hillside twice), the long-range long-range lens and the inside reverse shot, and the poetry of the dried flowers in the workbook. The robber logic that teaches children to be strong and obedient is so familiar, so the boy's odyssey has long gone beyond the connotation of pure friendship, and contains the meaning of rebellion against discipline. But paradoxically, the boy's persistent search came from the fear of the teacher's threat of punishment. Abbas gave a relatively bright ending, and may that little flower protect the boy from escaping the cycle told by grandpa forever.

  • Carmelo 2022-02-03 08:04:25

    "Little Shoes", "The Color of Heaven", "Song of the Sparrow", "Turtles Can Fly", and this "Where Is My Friend's Home", I have to say that the Iranian children's films are pretty good. . The innocence and perseverance of children is undoubtedly revealed in Ahmed. ...Unfortunately, the final subtitle matching timeline didn't match up, which somewhat affected the viewing of the movie.

Where Is the Friend's House? quotes

  • Grandfather's Friend: What I mean to say is, suppose the kid did nothing wrong. What would you do? What then?

    Grandfather: I'd find an excuse and give him a beating every other week. So he wouldn't forget.